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I tried a 30 bottle MYO white wine kit from the range. It's (or was) £23.99 + 3.5 bags of sugar. They are mentioned several times on the...

Yes, I had this issue with protofloc. I've switched to using 1/2 per 23l batch which is better. Ideally I should use 1/4 but it gets...

Just looked at elderflowers again and I think they are almost 2 weeks earlier this year than tradition dictates

I use the homebrew shop as it's about 15 miles from me. (It used to be closer before it moved from Aldershot to Farnborough, so it's now...

I do use crystal for colour if I'm making something that needs it (eg a bitter or even a golden ale) I never dry hop.

I think that's still going to give you something quite hoppy. I guess that's what you're after. My attempts at a more balanced ~3%...

Cloudyness could come from pectin in the apples. You can get pectolytic enzyme to prevent this & it's often used in fruit wine recipies.

Unfortunately that says it all. You would have thought that sort of community would be well placed to help such endeavours, but in...

For a kit based brew, how about a one can kit but don't add the kilo of sugar? Could give you something drinkable but about 2% lower abv.

There are quite a few elderflower wine recipies around. Last year I brewed one with lemons & grapefruit to about 6% strength and bottle...

A re they sorted by height so they can put them through a bench capper in same height batches?

Commercial brewers don't want to tie up their equipment any longer than necessary, so they can get the next batch on. So things like...

I can see where you're coming from. That's not a high start number & I would be scared to bottle that at 1.017 due to bottle bomb risk...

At the risk of sounding flippant, shouldn't you post this on the USA version of the forum as it's completely irrelevant to the rest of...

I'm not saying this is the right way, it's time consuming, but works for me & I'm happy to mess about doing this for an hour. (If you...